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Don: You got the quotation right, but I'm not sure whether it came from Ben Franklin or Burt Reynolds.

While making the movie The Longest Yard, Burt Reynolds supposedly told a movie magazine interviewer that he was a little pissed off at, "I'm not making this movie because I love football --- I'm making it because I love taking showers with black guys."

Now, I realize that Ben Franklin lived long before Burt Reynolds ... but Ben Franklin was an outspoken abolitionist, and I think that has to be the quote that you must be thinking of.

Another first for Bilerico! Just take a look at the Alex's initial post, bearing a date of October 7th, and then note that comments 1 through 6 are dated BEFORE that in September. I haven't yet watched the first two episode of Journeyman, a new NBC series just after HEROS involving time travel.

With comments now PRECEEDING the postings, now we contributors can gage reactions before we commit. Larry Craig will be arrested BEFORE anyone gets tapped...... Jarame, you are indeed a technical wizard!

Just because I know Don's comment is going to confuse some of our readers - Alex keeps changing the date on this post about commenting. It's been ran on several days now. Jerame's good, but he's not that good. :)

Just as I was once a "mainframe God" --- Jerame is now the "server God" meaning that he probably has security clearance to "zap" data directly on the server's hard disk and make it say anything he wants it to ... in fact, how can any of us trust anything here on the Bilerico website? How do I know that Bil and Alex even really exist? Maybe Jerame is just making them up ... and, when you think about it, for that matter ...

... and my post last week, you know, the one that's so embarrassing, the one I don't even remember having posted ... You guessed it! JERAME DID IT! He doctored the server so that it looks like I made all those zany comments that I didn't really make! Do you actually think I would post something creepy and icky about corn dog porno? Wow, I sure wish that Jerame could find something better to do with his life than to spend all that time and technical genius making me look insipid!

Oh, Jerame, what did I do to deserve this? ... (* hysterical sobbing *) ... Bil! ... Alex! ... Don! ... you call this silly thread "commenting fun" but I've figured out what it actually is: it's a conspiracy to drive me insane!

... Is this reality, or am I still stuck in The Matrix? Is Jerame maybe "The One"? Did I swallow the Red Pill or the Blue Pill? ... Obi-Wan! You've got to help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi! You're my only hope! ... Oh, what a world! What a world! I'm melting! Oh my god! I'm melting! You damn little bitch with your fancy ruby slippers and that goddamn yapping Toto-dog of yours! I'll get you, my pretty! ... I'll get you! ... You won't get away with this! ... When I get ahold of that magic golden ring, all of Modor will be mine! All the creatures collected at the foot of Pride Rock will shout, "All hail Adrian!" ... Brad! Janet! Dr. Scott! ... Magenta! Columbia! ... Just remember, this is still the Bates Motel and my mother is still in charge! ... And just wait until Blanche gets better and wakes up, I'm gonna tell her what you've been doing to me, Baby Jane! ... "Klaatu! Barata! Nekto! ... Klaatu! Barata! Nekto!" That's what I'll say to her! ... Oh my God! Look at the sky! Look at those telephone wires! ... The seagulls are flocking to attack again! The seagulls are diving and pecking at me again! Look! That guy just dropped his cigarette in the flowing gasoline, and the service station is about to explode! ... Run, Bambi! ... RUN!!

P.S. (* between sobs *) Has anyone seen where I misplaced my Ritalin and my Prozac? I sure hope I find them soon ... It must be going on a week now ...

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